On Wednesday, February 24, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing on options for reforming the US Postal Service to help ensure it delivers the services Americans rely on and need. The committee has invited the Postmaster General, Donald Trump’s appointee Louis DeJoy, and others to testify about the failures at the post office.
Many lawmakers and concerned citizens have renewed calls to remove him from his post, which has no term limit. He could stay in that post for decades, like a Supreme Court justice, unless removed. Thirty-four Democratic Senators also wrote a letter to DeJoy this past week about the severe delays in the delivery of mail over the holidays and other disruptive changes he made before the election.
The US post office announced the first part of a plan to transform itself into America's "preferred delivery service," suggesting of course that, currently, it isn't.
With on-time mail delivery ‘drastically’ down, Wild joins call for new Postal Service appointments
Updated Feb 20, 2021;
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U.S. Rep. Susan Wild joined colleagues in the House this week in urging President Joe Biden to fill three vacancies on the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors.
Three seats remain vacant from former President Donald Trump’s administration at a time of “ongoing crisis at the United States Postal Service,” the House members said in a Feb. 16 letter to Biden.
“We strongly believe that filling those three vacancies would enhance the ability of the Board to reach nonpartisan consensus on matters of importance,” the letter states. “The lack of bipartisan consensus is evident in the Board of Governors’ selection of Republican Party megadonor Louis DeJoy – who had no experience working for the Postal Service prior to his appointment – to succeed Megan Brennan as Postmaster General in June 2020.
Chicago police are asking for the public’s help identifying the driver of an SUV that hit a cyclist and critically injured her last week in the Avondale neighborhood, then drove off. A dark gray or black Buick Enclave was traveling north in the 3500 block of North Kimball Avenue about 2:20 p.m. Feb. 10, when the collision happened, according to police. As the Buick approached the intersection .
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